2023-08-29 02:48:37
The crime occurred five days after the coup d’état by the dictator Augusto Pinochet against Salvador Allende in 1973. Now the Supreme Court has handed down a final sentence, setting sentences of 25 years in prison and civil compensation to the family.
The Supreme Court of Chile sentenced this Monday to seven military withdrawn to sentences of up to 25 years in prison for him kidnapping and murder of singer-songwriter Víctor Jaraoccurred five days after the coup that established the dictatorship of Augusto Pinocheton September 11, 1973. The sentence comes almost 50 years after that crime.
The ruling imposed a 15-year sentence for the homicides of Jara and also the former director of Prisons Littré Quiroga Carvajal and 10 years for the kidnapping of both retired Army officers Raúl Jofré, Edwin Dimter, Nelson Haase, Ernesto Bethke, Juan Jara and Hernán Chacón, and 8 years as a concealer for Rolando Melo.
The now damned they are between 73 and 85 years old and they are all free.
Last month it was reported that retired lieutenant Pedro Barrientos, one of those accused of murdering Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (such is the full name of the popular singer) lost his US nationality for his involvement in this emblematic murder, which occurred during the dictatorship in Chile. .
The Court resolved to reject “the appeals in form and substance filed by the defendants’ defense,” according to the newspaper La Tercera, Biobío radio, and the AFP and Sputnik news agencies.
“The events described (…) are real, since they occurred in a certain place and time and are tested, legally accredited through the evidentiary means”, indicated the high court in a unanimous decision.
In the civil aspect, the treasury was sentenced to pay each of his brothers 80 million Chilean pesos ($93,600) y to the widow and children from the victim 150 million ($175,500) each.
The news was released at the same time as an act that took place at the University of Santiago de Chile (Usach), headed by President Gabriel Boric.
In that house of studies, on September 11, 1973, the photographic exhibition called “For life? Always!” was to be held, with the presence of ousted president that day, Salvador Allende.
The government coup postponed 50 years the opening of the exhibition.
Who was Victor Jara?
A member of the Communist Party, Jara, also a theater director, teacher and writer, was arrested, tortured and killed with 44 bullets after being arrested at the State Technical University, where he worked as a professor, days after Pinochet’s coup in Chile.
Quiroga, for his part, was arrested on September 11, 1973 when he went to voluntarily present himself to the Armored Regiment No. 2 and was transferred to the National Stadium two days later.
He was 33 years old and his body was found near the Metropolitan Cemetery, along with four other people, including Jara.
A poster of Víctor Jara, a musician assassinated by the Chilean dictatorship, when his funeral was held in 2009. Photo Claudio Santana / AFP
During the Pinochet dictatorship, more than 28,000 people were tortured, 3,227 were assassinated, and some 200,000 were forced into exile, according to official figures.
Author of songs such as “I remember you Amanda”, “The right to live in peace” or “Manifesto”, Víctor Jara is considered a symbol of the New Chilean Songa musical and social movement that developed in the 1960s until the beginning of the 1970s.
“Physical torture was applied to him, the most severe blows being those that he received in the region of his face and on his hands,” reports the investigation by Judge Miguel Vázquez.
His body was found in a vacant lot near the Santiago Metropolitan Cemetery on September 16, 1973, along with four other political prisoners, including Quiroga.
In December 2009, 36 years after his death and the secret burial of his remains by agents of the Pinochet dictatorship, the Chilean justice system ordered the exhumation of his remainswhich allowed the singer to be buried in an official ceremony in which the then president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, participated.
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